Afapinen

A magazine of Nigerian criticism. Founded in July 2021.

[Afapinen @afapinen]

Afapinen was started as a literary magazine to platform new voices in critical writing on visual art, literature, and music, in defining a new age.

We are calling for support in donations to help us continue this great job. Use the link below to donate:

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[Afapinen @afapinen]

"I bent my head to the sink and turned the tap on. As water ran over my head and my face, those words returned to me, and, like an epiphany, the wet darkness revealed that I would have to continue trusting my body for as long as I could. I would have to trust the water."

[Afapinen @afapinen]

"It was my turn to watch TV. I faced the device, grateful for its powers of distraction."

Fiction from @EEsomnofu

https://t.co/aOkt6Jl5Ag

[Afapinen @afapinen]

"She felt all these emotions deeply because even though she was in school that day, her heart had overtaken her with emotions of departure. So before thinking of leaving this all behind, she was already feeling nostalgic."

Fiction from @ChukwuderaEdozi
https://t.co/RuXSL5PKdu

[Afapinen @afapinen]

“Indeed, Zaki said, nothing becomes sacred until you’ve walked shoeless through the dark to find it.”

Read one of our latest fictions by @KatsinaKK https://t.co/rP9uzjnmrj

[Michael Chièdoziém Chúkwúderà @ChukwuderaEdozi]

The first chapter of my sophomore novel, “Woman at a Crossroads,” has been published on @afapinen. Thanks to my editor @carlterver for giving it a home.

Read

Pre order link under the thread.

https://t.co/npxFQm1zVT

[Afapinen @afapinen]

“After a rumour swept through the country of the second coming of Jesus Christ . . . people sold all their food and belongings, some even their houses, and slept in churches, fasting and praying and yearning for heaven.”

New fiction on site.
https://t.co/rP9uzjnmrj

[Afapinen @afapinen]

“The impact was a grating, heavy shove, metal folding into metal, glass exhaling. Zaki re-emerged on the scene from the nearby bush. He had transformed into a tiny bird and flown out of the opened window.”

New fiction from @KatsinaKK
https://t.co/rP9uzjnmrj

[Afapinen @afapinen]

Mr. Orvangegbilin never changed. Find out why by reading this great short story by Carl Terver.

[someone slandered all of us @carlterver]

"Anytime Mr. Orvangegbilin is free, he tries to add more words to his numerous, unfinished short stories."

Don't be like Mr. Orvangegbilin. LOL https://t.co/s67PiBOYjf

[Afapinen @afapinen]

"We all turned to the screen. A man dressed in an impeccable dark-blue suit held a gun to his head, charged by tears, as a teenage boy stood on the other side begging him not to do it. I was particularly enraptured because the dialogue pulsed with the..." https://t.co/aOkt6Jl5Ag

[Afapinen @afapinen]

“Nigerian literature is moving away from ordinary society,” writes Carl Terver, which has led to what he calls “the middleclass problem of Nigerian writing.” Read essay to find out more: https://t.co/DTi2LvkPO2

[Afapinen @afapinen]

Is politics the true essence of life? Join Carl Terver in his review to understand Odafe Atogun’s The Cabal, where the latter makes this claim.
https://t.co/RI0RY5a8tc

[Afapinen @afapinen]

"ZAKI WUAIKYA ALWAYS WAITED FOR noon, when the sun shone with malice and life forms moved slowly, to go to the quarry where the bush path led to the only hotel in Boager—and there, at the bottom, relieve himself."

New fiction from @KatsinaKK
https://t.co/rP9uzjnmrj

[Kumater @KatsinaKK]

my very first short story is out in the world today!

shout out to the inimitable @carlterver for taking so much time and care with this!

Guys, read, I promise you'll enjoy it. And if you don't, trash it. Share, too. Please!🙏

[someone slandered all of us @carlterver]

Every once in a while @afapinen gets a spike in visits because of this review. The stats mostly show US. Apparently N. America is more interested in reading about Nigerian literature than we do.
https://t.co/8D54xlLOoJ

[Afapinen @afapinen]

"ZAKI WUAIKYA ALWAYS WAITED FOR noon, when the sun shone with malice and life forms moved slowly, to go to the quarry where the bush path led to the only hotel in Boager—and there, at the bottom, relieve himself."

New fiction from @KatsinaKK
https://t.co/rP9uzjnmrj

[Afapinen @afapinen]

Is politics the true essence of life? Join Carl Terver in his review to understand Odafe Atogun’s The Cabal, where the latter makes this claim.
https://t.co/RI0RY5a8tc

[Afapinen @afapinen]

“Nigerian literature is moving away from ordinary society,” writes Carl Terver, which has led to what he calls “the middleclass problem of Nigerian writing.” Read essay to find out more: https://t.co/DTi2LvkPO2

[Afapinen @afapinen]

"We all turned to the screen. A man dressed in an impeccable dark-blue suit held a gun to his head, charged by tears, as a teenage boy stood on the other side begging him not to do it. I was particularly enraptured because the dialogue pulsed with the..." https://t.co/aOkt6Jl5Ag

[someone slandered all of us @carlterver]

I did a bit of theorising in this essay, arguing for the personality of a poem, for which without, a poem becomes an echo.
https://t.co/17zM8phzqA

[someone slandered all of us @carlterver]

My magazine @afapinen has lately experienced a spike in views regarding this review. So I decided to share this again. Wrote the hell out of this, that the author said I should he held if he resigned from writing! 😇
https://t.co/8D54xlLOoJ